The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-29

EUprHBR attempts will b made % 81
force the sunday law In 81 Louis.
A SALOON Ut Paramount, Ind, was re-
Gently blown mp with dynamite. The in.
habitants were opposed 70 liquor selling.
QUEEN KAPIoLAxr. Of the Saudwish
islands, reached San Francisco on the 1874.
A BOAT, in which were Ernst Berent and
his two brothers, while trying to cross the
river 1t Wlnona, Mimi, the other day, was
struck by the cable Of ferryb and cap
sized. The two brothers reached the shore IN
safety, but Ernst, who chung TO tho cable,
was drawn under the water - It sunk and
was drowned.
THE st. Anthony elevator, Minneapolis.
Mimi, one OF the largest in the Northwest,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss on
building and machinery, $3.50, 600; ON grain,
tS25, 600; insurance not known.
ED. CORRIGAx, the h0rseman, WAS ruled
OF the track st Chicago recently, owing to
Q dispute with the judges.
A MOB at Wilkinson, Hancock County,
Ind, destroyed the saloon Of William Will
son recently.
The third annual convention Of the No
tional Railway Station Agents. Associa
ton began at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
10th.
A CONFERENCE Of passenger agents at
Chicago recently decided on having the
irregular tickets issued from Boston TO
deemed forthwith.
FURTHER cuts in freight rates to points in
Texas were made in st. Louis on the Goth.
The cuts were led by the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe.
A "HAIL CYCLONE" was reported recently
as having passed through the country near
Wabash, Ind The heavy hail stones cut q
swath two or three miles wide for > consid'
cradle distance, destroying every thing.
ANDREW WILLIAMS and Robert West
were killed and Robert Williams fatally in
jurcd by Q tree falling on their buggy the
other afternoon, fifteen miles south Of
Terre Haute, Ind, a. they were returning
from funeral
FoUR persons were fatally and seriously
injured during recent Wild West perform
ance at Clinton, Iowa, owing to one Of the
cowboys' pistols being loaded with bullets
by some mistake.
SoME good rains fell in Western Missouri
and Eastern and Central Kansas on the l9tt
and 10th, breaking the dr0uth which ut thu
time threatened serious consequences.
The Ohio Democrats, In convention a'
Cleveland on the 2lst, nominated Thomas
e. Powell, Of Delaware County. for Cover
nor. Lieutenant Governor, d. c. Goldman
Of Portage; for Judge OF the Supreme
Court, long term, L. r. Litchfeld o.
Holmes, and for Judge, short term, Virgil
p. Kline, Of Cleveland; Auditor Of State
Joseph G. Curley; Treasurer, George w
Harper; Attorney General, William &
Leet; Member of Board of Public Works
Peter s. Murphy.
THE powder house Of the Chicago Goa
Company exploded at Streetor, ILL.,, recent
ly. being struck by lightning. Forty-fiv'
dwellings were destroyed and several per
sons were fatally and seriously injured.
GAMBRrNCs Assembly, Knights of Labor
Milwaukee, Wis, has withdrawn from tn
order on account of Powderly's Temperance
proclivities.
LAND-sKEKERs in from the Wisconsin
woods report q tornado passing through
the vicinity of the Rainy river district, an,
the township of Allis, Presque Isle County
doing immense damage to standing pine
In one forty acre tract not q tree was lef
! standing.
THE Hanson Printing Company, Of Chi
cago, has made an assignment with Ss25, 90
liabilities and nominally equal assets. n
the establishment that printed the famou
| forged ballots that were instrumental il
sending Joseph c. Mackin to the peniter
tiary.
The clothing house of H. c. Burbank q
st. Paul, Mimi, burned the other nigh
Loss, s150.OOO; two-thirds insured.
| DAVE HOFFMAN, who wrecked train o
the Missouri Pacific near Dunbar, Neb
last January for purposes of robbery, wa
hanged on the I'D at Nebraska City for hi
crime. The engineer Of the Inflated trai
was killed and the conductor shockingl
injured.
Two Of the children Of Mrs.C. A. Heat
were burned to death at Montrose, Co
during her absence from home the othe
day.
JOHNS Il Co. photographers Of CLEVELAND
O., lost so, LOO by Ere the other dav.
| THE SOUTH.
TIE gambling houses of Denison, Tex
have been raided and closed.
WILLIE AUGUSTUS WHITE, aged twelv
and Robert Beacham, colored, aged NM
Quar-eled the other day at Louisville, Ky
and the colored boy was stabbed and il
stautly killed.
Mrs. W. j. CONNOLLY, Of San Sal
County, Tex, was killed by . fraction
horse recently.
THREE new cases Of yellow fever q
peared in Key West Fla, on the 18th an